The KwaZulu-Natal Community Fi re Awareness Officer, Simphiwe Dlamini, has conducted a FireSafe workshop with the uBuhlebezwe Local Municipality for community development workers (CDWs) at the Peace Initiative Hall in Ixopo. The workshop aimed to curb the escalating...

Early childhood development (ECD) is the allround development of very young children by engaging them in a variety of educational and social activities to help them to further develop into childhood and adulthood. The development of babies, toddlers and young children...

The Working on Fi re Communications Department hosted its annual departmental training from 7 to 11 November 2016. Among the attendees were Community Awareness Training Officers (CATOs) and Fire Awareness Training Officers (FATOs) – who received training in Project...

A Yellow Card training camp was held in Witelsbos for two weeks, attended by 112 firefighters from the eight teams in the West District of the Eastern Cape. The Ground Operations Manager (GOM ) for the West District, Mxoli Cabela, says the objective of the training...

Working on Fire Western Cape has been hard at work as it prepares its participants for the 2016/17 summer fire season. Just over 650 participants stationed at 28 bases within the province attended a Yellow Card training camp during 19–30 September partake in various...

Mamelong is an informal settlement situated next to the Vaal Dam, about 40 kilometres from Vereeniging. It is surrounded by farms and most of the community members who work are employed on the farms on a seasonal basis. ‘‘Working on Fire is the only formal employer in...